Laravel,
batteries included.

Auth, queues, migrations, testing — all shipped in the framework. No assembling a stack from fifteen libraries. Just building the business.

Laravel 11 + Livewire

Horizon for queues

Horizon · queue:default

pending

done

total

recent jobs

#1SendInvoiceEmaildone

#2SyncMoMoTransactionrunning

Every dispatch is queued, retried on failure, and dead-lettered if it can't complete. That's Laravel's job model.

Live demo. Dispatch a job.

why we use it

Full-stack, out of the box.

Laravel makes the boring decisions for you. Authentication, background jobs, database migrations, API tooling, and testing — all first-party, all tested, all documented.

Ship in weeks

Artisan scaffolding, Eloquent models, and built-in auth mean you write business logic — not boilerplate.

Queues as a first-class citizen

Background jobs, batching, chaining, retries, dead-letter queues. Horizon gives you a dashboard for all of it.

A real ecosystem

Livewire, Inertia, Nova, Filament, Cashier, Scout, Sanctum, Passport — first-party tools for everything.

when to pick Laravel

Laravel vs Node vs Django.

All three are production-ready. The choice depends on your team and the shape of the product.

Criterion	Laravel	Node.js	Django
Batteries included	Everything first-party	Assemble your stack	Everything first-party
Language	PHP 8.3	TypeScript	Python 3.12
Background jobs	Built-in + Horizon	BullMQ or similar	Celery
Admin panel	Nova / Filament	Build custom	Django Admin
Real-time	Reverb / Pusher	Socket.IO	Channels
Best for	Full-stack teams	Realtime and APIs	Data-heavy apps

reference

Laravel technical reference.

Every pattern we use on a Laravel project — from install to deployment.

Overview

Laravel is a full-stack PHP framework built around one idea: convention over configuration. Authentication, queues, migrations, testing, and API tooling all ship in the framework — so teams spend their time on business problems, not plumbing.

Install

terminalbash

# New project

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel my-app

# Local dev server

$ php artisan serve

Eloquent ORM

Eloquent is Laravel's ActiveRecord ORM. Models map to tables. Relationships read like English. Migrations version every schema change.

app/Models/Invoice.phpphp

class Invoice extends Model

{

public function customer(): BelongsTo

{

return $this->belongsTo(Customer::class);

}

protected $casts = ['paid_at' => 'datetime'];

}

Routing

Routes live in one file. Middleware, validation, and authorization all bind cleanly to route definitions.

routes/api.phpphp

Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->group(function () {

Route::apiResource('invoices', InvoiceController::class);

Route::post('invoices/{invoice}/pay', [InvoiceController::class, 'pay']);

});

Queues & jobs

Background jobs are first-class. Dispatch, retry, batch, chain, and monitor through Horizon.

app/Jobs/ChargeCustomer.phpphp

class ChargeCustomer implements ShouldQueue

{

public $tries = 5;

public $backoff = [10, 30, 60];

public function handle(): void

{

$this->gateway->charge($this->invoice);

}

Authentication

Sanctum for SPAs and mobile apps, Passport for OAuth2 servers, Breeze or Jetstream for scaffolding. Session auth, API tokens, and social login are all first-party.

Livewire

Reactive UIs without leaving PHP. Components render on the server, update over the wire, and feel like SPAs.

app/Livewire/Counter.phpphp

class Counter extends Component

{

public $count = 0;

public function increment(): void

{

$this->count++;

}

Inertia

When you want React or Vue on the frontend with Laravel as the backend, Inertia gives you an SPA feel without building a separate API. Same controllers, same routing — just JSON responses that hydrate components.

Testing

Pest for modern, expressive tests. Feature tests cover user journeys. Unit tests cover business logic. Coverage targets agreed upfront.

tests/Feature/InvoiceTest.phpphp

it('creates an invoice', function () {

$this->actingAs(User::factory()->create())->

postJson('/api/invoices', ['amount' => 12500])

->assertCreated();

assertDatabaseHas('invoices', ['status' => 'pending']);

});

Deployment

Forge for managed VPS deployment, Vapor for serverless on AWS Lambda, or Docker + CI/CD for full control. Zero-downtime deploys, staged rollouts, and rollback are standard.

Tooling

The stack we pair with Laravel on every project.

Horizon

Queue monitoring

Telescope

Local debugging

Pulse

App health metrics

Nova

Admin panel

Filament

Modern admin

Cashier

Subscriptions

Scout

Full-text search

Sanctum

API auth

Pint

Code formatting

where we use it

Laravel applications across four sectors.

Fintech

Payments, ledgers, reconciliation

Education

Admissions, results, portals

Healthcare

Clinical systems, patient records

Retail

Storefronts, order management

questions

Common
questions.

Laravel ships with a full toolkit out of the box — auth, queues, migrations, testing, admin. For teams building full-stack applications, that means less glue code and faster delivery.

Building with Laravel?

We can help — whether you need a team or just engineers.

Laravel,batteries included.